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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

William Shakespeare
Religious, War, Law
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.196, Palgrave Macmillan

The hideous god of war.

William Shakespeare
War, God Of War, Hideous
William Shakespeare (1767). “The works of Shakespeare, with corrections and illustr. from various commentators”, p.125

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

William Shakespeare
War, Farewell, Ambition
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

William Shakespeare
Love, War, Eye
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

William Shakespeare
War, Night, Doe
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 4, sc. 5, l. [237]

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

William Shakespeare
War, Fifty, Way
1599-1600 Touchstone. AsYou Like It, act 5, sc.1, l.51-6.

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Writing

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

William Shakespeare
Peace, War, Names
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

William Shakespeare
Art, War, Saint
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

William Shakespeare
War, Men, Good Man
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [146]

A man can die but once.

William Shakespeare
War, Men, Medieval War
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [253].

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

William Shakespeare
War, Soldier
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [417]

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

William Shakespeare
War, Army, Faces
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.205, Oxford University Press, USA

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.73

To whom God will, there be the victory.

William Shakespeare
War, Victory, Gods Will
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.239

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

William Shakespeare
War, Three, World
'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

William Shakespeare
Money, War, Heart
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.781

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

William Shakespeare
War, Dark, Wife
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

William Shakespeare
War, Farewell, Ambition
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

William Shakespeare
War, Sleep, Men
William Shakespeare, A. R. Humphreys (1967). “King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series”, p.87, Cengage Learning EMEA

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

William Shakespeare
War, Nice, Gambling
William Shakespeare (2012). “Henry IV”, p.61, Courier Corporation

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

William Shakespeare
War, England, Conquer
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

William Shakespeare
War, Army, Night
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Sea
William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2000). “The First Quarto of King Henry V”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare
War, Names, Littles
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 18

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